Battle of Stockach (1799)
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The Battle of Stockach occurred on 25 March 1799, when French and Austrian armies fought for control of the geographically strategic Hegau region in present-day Baden-Württemberg. In the broader milit
Feldmarschall-Leutnant Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg leading Austrian infantry during the battle of Stockach, 25 March 1799.
Jean-Baptiste Jourdan
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Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, 1st Count Jourdan, was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire by Emperor Napole
Battle of Stockach (1799)
…the Wars of the Second Coalition, part of the French Revolutionary Wars. It was the second battle between the French Army of the Danube, commanded by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, and the Habsburg Army under Archduke Charles; the armies had met a few days earlier, 20–22 March, on the marshy fields southeast of Ostrach and the…
Portrait by Joseph-Marie Vien, c. 1805
Jourdan's birth home in Limoges, with a commemorative plaque installed during the Second Republic
Detail of an equestrian portrait of Jourdan by Johann Dryander, 1794
The Battle of Fleurus in 1794, won by Jourdan over Coalition forces led by the princes of Coburg and Orange